In the Academy's entire history, of the Supporting Actors winners, only one, Walter Brennan, had received three Oscars, and all three withing a period of four years. Brennan won Oscars for “Come and Get It” (1936), “Kentucky” (1938), and “The Westerner” (1940). He was nominated for the fourth time in 1941, for “Sergeant York.”

The young Tatum O'Neal also saw a dramatic increase in her fee after winning the Supporting Actress Oscar for “Paper Moon” (1973), commanding $300,000 and nine percent of the net profits of her next feature, “The Bad News Bears,” thus becoming Hollywood's highest-paid child actress.

The Oscar's cash value is enjoyed by all Oscar winners, lead and supporting actors. “All they wanted to know,” said Martin Balsam, the Supporting Actor winner for “A Thousand Clowns” (1965), “was how much more money I wanted for my next project.”

Julie Christie's debut in John Schlesinger's “Billy Liar” (1962) earned her the meager amount of $3,000. In three years, however, her salary went up one hundred times. While for her 1965 Oscar-winning role in “Darling!” (also directed by Schlesinger), Christie was paid $7,500, for her next film, David Lean's “Doctor Zhivago,” she received $120,000.

It's hard to believe that Dustin Hoffman was paid only $17,000 for his first film, Mike Nichols' “The Graduate” (1967), which made him an instant star and also brought him his first Best Actor nomination. Two years later, Hoffman received $400,000 for John Schlesinger's “Midnight Cowboy” (1969), which earned him another Actor nomination.